Maasinhon Trio proclaimed Pilipinas Got Talent Season 3 winner

Pilipinas Got Talent Season 3 named Maasinhon Trio grand winner.

The Maasinhon Trio sang Basil Valdez’s “Nais Ko.” Though they are the oldest among the "Pilipinas Got Talent Season 3" finalists, these three singers are determined to bring pride to their hometown.

The Maasinhon Trio

Andrew Sanchez

Bonifacio Salubre

Licinio Lolo

Hometown

Maasin City, Southern Leyte

The three used to be members of Menzvoyz Band which has disbanded. They are all soloists and they became barkada after joining several contests. They formed Maasinhon Trio with the encouragement of Fr. Dodong Cordovez and Fr. Sammy Papa. Today, they continue to entertain and play beautiful music on weddings, birthdays and other special occasions in the city, province and wherever they are invited. Andrew who is the base, plays the guitar very well and Licinio, the tenor plays the keyboard and drums. Both are music composers.

Bonifacio Salubre who works as Fire Officer I of Bureau of Fire Protection, is happily married to Rachiel Cutamora and blessed with two children. Andrew Sanchez is warehouse chief of Southern Leyte Electric Cooperative and Licino Lolo is a supply officer II of the Province of Southern Leyte.

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First casualty in Phillipines tallest bridge

SOGOD, SOUTHERN LEYTE – What was to be joyride amongst friends to visit the country’s tallest bridge quickly turned tragic as 20-year-old Lowela Aguero jumped off the Agas-agas bridge and plunged to her death.

According to initial reports from her relatives Lowela Aguero who is a native of Maasin City invited her friends to go to Sogod town to visit the bridge since it was reportedly one of her favorite places to visit. Little did her friends know that Aguero had something else in mind as she suddenly started to distance herself from them while at the bridge.

Alarmed, her friends started to lead her away from the edge of the bridge, and then she pushed them away and suddenly jumped.

Agas-Agas Bridge, Southern Leyte

The 90-meter tall (30 stories down) Agas-Agas Bridge, the tallest in the country was opened to the public on August 8, 2009 as an essential link in connecting the Visayas and Mindanao road network.

Many Southern Leytenos who attended Aguero’s wake said that such a waste of life could have been prevented if proper safety precautions were built on the bridge.

Before the incident the provincial government of Southern Leyte and the Southern Leyte Chamber of Commerce have revealed proposed plans to make the bridge and its surroundings to a extreme sports venue wherein bungee jumping and zipline rapelling would be offered to the public to help generate tourism revenue for the local government.

Many sectors now in Southern Leyte have expressed their concerns after the death of Aguero on the bridge’s inadequate safety measures for the public and also the bridge’s lack of security from any terrorist attack.(Yahoo! Southeast Asia)

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Gaisano Malls will soon be established in the province of Southern Leyte

A groundbreaking rites formally and officially seals the deal for the ties that bind the city government of Maasin and Gaisano chain of superstores in line with the public-private partnership scheme propagated under the administration of Pres. P-Noy.

Highlight of the event was the lowering of the capsule and the ceremonial shoveling by all the principal actors of the deal, both from Gaisano and the officials from the local governments.

In attendance of the said activity was Dr. Edward Gaisano, chairman of the Board of Directors of Vicsal Development Corporation, the operator of Gaisano Metro chain of superstores, Mr. Arthur Emmanuel, head of the retail group, with full participation from the city government of Maasin lead by City Mayor Engr. Maloney Samaco and ever supportive dou of the Mercado Brothers, Lone District of Southern Leyte Representative Oging Mercado and Governor Mian Mercado.

The branch here in Maasin City will be known as Gaisano Metro Maasin Department Store and Supermarket, and it will be Gaisano's tenth branch in a continuing move of opening new branches around the country.

According to the reports released by Philippine Information Agency, Gaisano Capital will also soon be established in the nearby booming municipality of Sogod, which the latters management has already applied for the building permit and submitted it's building plan for the project. The target date for the operation is tentatively set on June 2011 in time with the founding anniversary of the town. The source revealed that the proposed 2-storey shopping mall shall accommodate their supermarket, dept. store and reserved among others.

With this development, even the business community is excited with the coming of Gaisano in the countryside. That it would be more convenient for the people in the general to go shopping in the locality rather than trooping at the jam-packed malls at the cities which would be more expensive.

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